Changing Strings on an Acoustic Guitar

By Dan Cross, About.com Guide

Immediately after the wrapped string has passed over the string end, guide the string so that on the next pass, it will wrap under the string end. All subsequent wrap-arounds will also wrap under the string end, each wrap going below the last.

Avoid wrapping so that the strings lie on top of, or cross over one another. Keep turning the tuner in a counter-clockwise manner, until the string has been brought into tune. At this point, your tuning peg should look approximately like the one above(there may be additional string wraps on the peg if you left more slack in the string initially).